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 PinheadX
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 Oyster question - Now with Pics!!! 
#7352539 - 08/30/07 02:50 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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I found what I believe are oyster mushrooms growing from the hole where a branch used to be on a tree near a canal in Houston. The mushrooms in question are fairly large and white with some yellowing coloration on the edge of one, and a little buff coloration on the tops. Large white gills with forking, and the gills of one were damaged, and reddish brown where the damage was. No stems to speak of, as is the norm with oysters AFAIK. They smell a bit sweet or perfumy, but I'm not familiar with the smell of oysters. It's not really "mushroomy", per se. Haven't gotten a spore print yet, but I don't expect them to be anything but white or buff. They seem to be very mature specimens, but in good shape other than insect damage and my poor collection technique.
Full of little bitty ants and maggots (well, one of them is). I hope to get them home before the maggots eat them into swiss cheese. I was hoping the ants would get rid of the maggots, but they seem to be friendly with one another. The maggots do seem to be bailing out though. I have them sitting in the sun outside in the bed of my truck right now, hoping the critters will get too hot for comfort and leave.
I'll post pics when I get to a camera. I really just want to know if there are any look alikes I should be worried about, or if these are pretty safe to try out. I'm not a newb who is going to eat something without IDing it, and I'm not going to eat a ton of something I've never had before, and I'm sure not going to eat a raw wild mushroom, but I do wanna try these out and maybe get some spores out of them, to try to cultivate at the casa.
Yellow coloration...
critters
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Edited by PinheadX (08/30/07 07:56 PM)
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implee
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Re: Oyster question [Re: PinheadX]
#7353327 - 08/30/07 06:09 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
PinheadX said:
I was hoping the ants would get rid of the maggots, but they seem to be friendly with one another.
Haha i love that, sorry i don't know about edibles though 
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PinheadX
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Re: Oyster question [Re: implee]
#7353741 - 08/30/07 08:00 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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the damn ants are in the gills, and they won't budge. The pic I took of them is in a crack in the mushroom cap, where they are cohabitating with maggots. Maybe they have subdued the maggots, but they haven't kicked them out on their sorry asses yet.
fortunately, it seems the maggots are only in one of these, so the other two are safer to nibble on.
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If you want to find psilocybin in species that are not yet known to be psychoactive, you should do chemical tests. That way you won't get sick and die all the time.
- Alan Rockefeller
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick
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 cactu
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Re: Oyster question [Re: PinheadX]
#7353754 - 08/30/07 08:07 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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pleurotus but not ostreatus, if you were in mexico i will say maybe levis maybe. all my best it smell good ha, well the gill are more separete that from here , chao
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PinheadX
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Re: Oyster question [Re: cactu]
#7353809 - 08/30/07 08:24 PM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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maybe Pleurotus pulmonarius. Guzman stated it's common in Louisiana and Gulf Coastal states, which TX is.
From this page: http://fp.bio.utk.edu/mycology/Pleurotus/pleurotusisg.htm#ISG%20VIII.
It says however, that pulmonarius is smaller than ostreatus. These are fairly large, compared to what I've seen commercially, but not necessarily as large as some I've seen pics of in the wild.
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If you want to find psilocybin in species that are not yet known to be psychoactive, you should do chemical tests. That way you won't get sick and die all the time.
- Alan Rockefeller
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick
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ToxicMan
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Re: Oyster question [Re: PinheadX]
#7357745 - 09/01/07 12:03 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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P. pulmonarius is the Oyster Mushroom we get on the plains in Colorado, and I've seen specimens (single caps) about 10 inches across. I've not actually seen P. ostreatus growing, so I wonder how big it gets if P. pulmonarius is smaller.
Happy mushrooming!
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Happy mushrooming!
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